GB: I Love Green Ghosts and I Can Not Lie (continuing)

[RachelG.]

Sure. I'm on a cozy mystery streak so s'mores is easy to do.

[Vicki]

Do you all think works for👻Read a book where there is a lot of one item on the cover? If so, I'll do that one.

[RachelG.]

Vicki wrote: "Do you all think works for👻Read a book where there is a lot of one item on the cover? If so, I'll do that one."

Looks like a lot of yarn to me on the cover.

[Carrie]

I’ll find one for the car on the cover.

[Jenny]

Completion Post: Mini Pufts

Task: 👻Read a small book (100-150 pages)
Book: The Crocodile's Jaws
Author: Mainak Dhar
Pages: 109
Read Date: 3 Sep
How it Fits: 109 pages

[RachelG.]

Completion Post: Mini Pufts

Task: 👻Read a book with smores (or the items to make a smore) on the cover
Book: S'Mores and Spells
Author: Samantha Silver
Pages: 142
Read Date: 9/5/25
How it Fits:

[Vicki]

Completion Post: Mini Pufts

Task: 👻Read a book where there is a lot of one item on the cover
Book: Hooked on You
Author: Kathleen FullerPages:
Read Date: 4 Sep
How it Fits: Many colors of yarn in the windows

[Carrie]

You all were super quick on that one!! I found and started my book. I’ll try to get done as soon as possible!

[Jenny]

No hurry!!!! Just enjoy it.

[Carrie]

Completion Post: Mini Puffs

Task: Read a book with a car on the cover
Book: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Author: Sangu Mandanna
Pages: 318
Date Read: 9/16/2025
How It Fits: Car on cover

[Donna, Chief Inspector]

Bug-eyed Ghost & Miner Ghost:



The bug-eyed ghost is a class 5 ghost. It is purple with a reptilian face, two small green eyes, and a larger third eye on its "forehead". It has 3 fingered hands and small horns near its eyebrows and at the top of its head. It is spotted flying through a window.

The Miner ghost is a skeletal zombie-like miner. It is a class 3 ghost. It just casually sat down in a diner and waited to be served on by a busy waitress who barely noticed who she was serving at first.

Can your team catch these two ghosts?



Tasks

👻Read a book with a bug on the cover

👻Read a book that is #3 in any series

👻Read a skeleton on the cover

👻Read a book with a reptilian creature

[RachelG.]

If an ant will work as a bug I happen to be reading The Antventure Begins at some point this week.

[Jenny]

An ant is a bug! Go for it.

[RachelG.]

Completion Post: Bug-eyed Ghost & Miner Ghost

Task: 👻Read a book with a bug on the cover
Book: Insects, Ivy, & Investigations
Author: Tonya Kappes
Pages: 192
Read Date: 9/21/25
How it Fits:

[Jenny]

Completion Post: Bug-eyed Ghost & Miner Ghost

Task: 👻 Read a book with a reptilian creature
Book: Odyssey
Author: Stephen Fry
Pages: 408
Read Date: 20 Sep
How it fits: Scylla is a many-headed reptile that kills several of Odysseus' crew.

[Jenny]

I grabbed reptile. If anyone else was planning that one, I can certainly change it.

[RachelG.]

I tried Antventure Begins and couldn't get past the first chapter so decided to switch my book. Life is too short for books that are long and boring.

[Carrie]

I‘ll take 3rd in series

[Vicki]

Question to my teammates: do you think just a skull is enough to qualify as a skeleton since it's not full body?

[Jenny]

I'm ok with it as a skull is part of a skeleton.

[Vicki]

Cool, just wanted to double check.

[Vicki]

Completion Post: Bug-eyed Ghost & Miner Ghost

Task: 👻Read a skeleton on the cover
Book: Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
Author: M.C. Beaton
Pages: 184
Read Date: 5 October
How it Fits: There's a skeleton head on the cover

[Carrie]

Completion Post: Bug-eyed Ghost and Miner Ghost

Task: Read a book that is 3rd in any series.
Book: The House at Sea's End
Author: Elly Griffiths
Pages: 384
Read Date: 10/6/2025
How it fits: Ruth Galloway - 3rd in series

[Carrie]

Checked us in.

[Donna, Chief Inspector]

Sewer Dragon:



There is a call about a ghost loose in the SoHo neighborhood. Your team drives down Fifth Avenue and observes a manhole cover being launched into the air and landing in the street. Another manhole lands on and pierces a car hood near a tattoo shop. The Sewer Dragon emerges, and weaves through traffic, flying head-on toward your car. It flies past the driver's side, rubbing against the car. Two cars crash at the intersection, distracted by the ghost.

This thing is the size of a city bus. It is shimmering blue with a long tail and wispy blue tendrils floating in its wake. Can your team capture it?



Tasks

👻Read a book with a blue cover (min 50%)

👻Read a book with a tattoo on the cover

👻Read a book with a dragon

👻Read a book with a bus on the cover

[Carrie]

I’ll take a book with a dragon unless someone else wants it.

[Jenny]

This one is going to be hard for me. I've got nothing at the moment. But, I will find something.

Go for the dragon. You got there first!!!!!

[Carrie]

I think the blue cover should be easiest. The bus may be really hard. I’m going to look at the other options in case one of us has troubles finding something.

[Jenny]

I found a bus one that I can use for something else as well, so I will take that one if it is alright with you guys.

[RachelG.]

I have a couple blue that are on my read list this week or I can find tattoo but it will be a bit until I get to it probably. Dragon is not usually my cup of tea so I would rather you take that Carrie.

[Jenny]

What do you mean you don't like dragons? You must not have read the Pern books when you were in your formative years. Too bad.
teehee

[RachelG.]

I actually do have a book with a tattoo that I plan to read for round 7.

I just never really seek out books with dragons in them although I have been working on the dragonlance series as a buddy read this year. Lots of fantasy books that I enjoy do have dragons but usually as background characters.

[Jenny]

I would totally have a dragon if I could. Especially if it let me sit on its back when it flew around.
And spit fire at assholes on command. That would be a lovely perk. Pretty sure I wouldn't get in any trouble for that.

[Vicki]

Does anyone mind if I do the blue cover? I read yesterday. It's 95.1% blue.

[Carrie]

Good by me!

[RachelG.]

Go for it. I will take tattoo.

[Vicki]

Thanks, Carrie & Rachel. :)

[Vicki]

Completion Post: Sewer Dragon


Task: 👻Read a book with a blue cover (min 50%)
Book: The Bright Sword
Author: Lev Grossman
Pages: 647
Read Date: 8 October
How it Fits: 95.1% Blue per TinEye

[RachelG.]

Completion Post: Sewer Dragon

Task: 👻Read a book with a tattoo on the cover
Book: The Butcher's Masquerade
Author: Matt Dinniman
Pages: 732
Read Date: 10/16/25
How it Fits: spiderweb tattoo on elbow

[Jenny]

Completion Post: Sewer Dragon

Task: 👻 Read a book with a bus on the cover
Book: The Route 66 Misfits: A Small Town Mystery Series
Author: CeeCee James
Pages: 190
Read Date: 16 Oct
How it Fits: bus on cover

[Carrie]

Completion Post: Sewer Dragon
Task: 👻Read a book with a dragon
Book: Baking Bad
Author: Kim M. Watt
Pages: 312
Date Read: 10/21/2025
How it fits: Beaufort is a dragon

[Carrie]

Checked us in 😊

[Jenny]

Thanks Carrie!!!

[Donna, Chief Inspector]

Pukey:



Pukey is a small, bipedal, class 5 full-roaming vapor. He was at the Paranormal Research Center for study. He recently escaped. Your team has been assigned the task of finding and capturing him. He may look like a cute little potato head but you may want to avoid getting vomited on. This little guy lives up to his name and ectoprojects plasm at its targets.



Tasks

👻Read a book tagged PARANORMAL

👻Read a book where someone escapes

👻Read a book with all the letters of PUKEY in the title

👻Read a book with the author's initial in ECTOPROJECTS

[Jenny]

I am finishing two books today that cover "someone escapes" and "author's initials", so I can take either of those.
Also happy to look for something else.

[Carrie]

The book I'm reading doesn't work for any of those tasks but my next read works for the author's initials.

[RachelG.]

I can do paranormal or pukey.

[Jenny]

Why don't I take escapes, as I just finished that book, and Carrie can take initials, and Rachel, you and Vicki can duke it out for the other two?

Sound ok?

[Jenny]

Completion Post: Pukey
Task: 👻 Read a book where someone escapes
Book: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Author: Shelby Van Pelt
Pages: 368
Date Read: 22 Oct
How it fits: Marcellus escapes from its enclosure many many times.

[RachelG.]

Jenny wrote: "Why don't I take escapes, as I just finished that book, and Carrie can take initials, and Rachel, you and Vicki can duke it out for the other two?

Sound ok?"

Sounds good to me.